On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 05:08:36PM +0100, Petr Pisar wrote: > V Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 05:54:36PM +0200, Dimitris Soumis napsal(a): > > After a recent change in the build system (which I am not aware of), I > > noticed that the generated RPM for the Tomcat package now has an unexpected > > dependency: > > > > $ rpm -qp --requires tomcat-9.0.98-1.fc43.noarch.rpm > > ... > > *filesystem(unmerged-sbin-symlinks)* > > ... > > > > As a result, attempting to install the RPM fails with the following error: > > Problem 1: conflicting requests > > - nothing provides filesystem(unmerged-sbin-symlinks) needed by > > tomcat-1:9.0.98-1.fc43.noarch from @commandline > > > The dependency is provided by filesystem-0:3.18-38.fc43.x86_64. > > > This requirement was not present in previous builds. I suspect it might be > > related to changes in the build system, but I am unsure what exactly > > introduced it. > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Unify_bin_and_sbin
Yes. This virtual Requires and the corresponding Provides are generated to avoid a situation where a package that was rebuilt in a buildroot with merged sbin is installed on a system with old filesystem which doesn't know about the merge and doesn't provide the compatibility symlinks. Zbyszek -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
